8.5.07
"Issue 11 commemorates the passing of Andrew Hill with an appreciation by Richard Davis, who played bass on the pianist’s classic Blue Note albums. Issue 11 also features excerpts from two must-read books: Andy Hamilton’s Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art (The University of Michigan Press); and the paperback edition of Michelle Mercer’s Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin). PoD’s columnists ruminate on a wide variety of topics. Art Lange revisits the work of Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, one of the most original and overlooked improvising ensembles of the 1960s. Francesco Martinelli details the evolution of jazz and improvised music in the great crossroads that is Istanbul. Brian Morton recounts a late winter sojourn to a frozen outpost to hear the best in Swedish jazz. The US scene is the subject of this issue’s What’s New? roundtable with trumpeter Lewis Barnes, producer Willard Jenkins, guitarist Joe Morris, and educator Lawrence Simpson.
A dozen recommended CDs are reviewed in Moment’s Notice including Anthony Braxton’s mammoth 9 CD+DVD box set, 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12), Chicago Underground Trio’s Chronicle (Delmark), and David Torn’s Prezens (ECM).
If that’s not enough, the Free Jazz contest offers readers the chance to win real prizes. Readers will have the opportunity to win, courtesy of Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, one of three author-autographed copies of Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter".
